{"id":11781,"date":"2021-05-21T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=11781"},"modified":"2021-05-21T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:38:45","slug":"cronkite-news-republicans-revolt-over-investigation-into-capitol-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/05\/21\/cronkite-news-republicans-revolt-over-investigation-into-capitol-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronkite News: Republicans revolt over investigation into Capitol attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Threats against elected officials during the heated 2020 election were shocking – but they were not isolated. State and federal authorities say threats again…<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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Over GOP objections, House OKs panel to probe January 6 Capitol assault<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\n• CONGRESS.GOV: H.R.3233 – National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex Act<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nWASHINGTON – The House voted Wednesday to create a bipartisan 9\/11-style commission to investigate the deadly January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, despite the opposition of 175 Republicans, including all four from Arizona.

<\/P>\r\nThe 252-175 vote<\/a> included 35 Republicans who crossed the aisle to join 217 Democrats in support of the bill that would create a 10-member commission, evenly divided between parties, to investigate the facts, causes and factors that led to the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

<\/P>\r\nThousands of supporters of then-President Donald Trump who were in Washington to a “Stop the Steal” rally marched from the event to the Capitol, where lawmakers were certifying the results of President Joe Biden’s election.

<\/P>\r\nThe mob eventually fought its way through police lines and breached the Capitol, roaming the halls for hours and temporarily halting the election certification as lawmakers were whisked to safety. Five people ultimately died in that attack,<\/a> including a Capitol Police officer, and more than 100 were injured in the hours of fighting.

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As a Marine and as a Member of Congress, I took an oath to defend our constitution and our democracy. Today I honored that oath by voting to create a National Commission to investigate the January 6th attack. We must never allow this to happen again.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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<\/p>\r\n“Let’s tell the truth: Democracy itself was violently attacked on Jan. 6. If we don’t stand up for it, it will happen again. If we don’t tell the truth about what happened on January 6, it will happen again,” said Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Phoenix, on the House floor<\/a> Wednesday. “If all of us don’t stand up to traitors and cowards in defense of our Constitution, it will happen again.”

<\/P>\r\nOpponents of the bill, like Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Peoria, condemned the Jan. 6 attack as “inexcusable,” but said in a statement<\/a> after the vote that she feared the commission would be used “as a political tool against Republicans.”

<\/P>\r\nOther Arizona Republicans – Reps. Andy Biggs of Gilbert, Paul Gosar of Prescott and David Schweikert of Fountain Hills – did not respond to request for comment Wednesday on their votes. But Biggs tweeted<\/a> a video earlier in the day in which he called the bill a “partisan attempt to continue the false narrative of the left,” while Gosar has tweeted<\/a> video clips showing rioters in the Capitol urging others to cooperate with police.

<\/P>\r\nRep. Raul Grijalva, D-Tucson, accused Republican opponents of trying to “rewrite history and deny that the insurrection even happened.”

<\/P>\r\n“Like the former president they blindly follow, these members are deliberately misleading the American people and amplifying the dangerous conspiracy theories that led to the Jan. 6 attack,” Grijalva said in a prepared statement.<\/a>

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